3d plot axis change font: is there any trick?

[gnappo]

In the 3d surface plot, is there any trick in order to have the name of an axis with Symbol font (greek letters)? 

Thank you

[Bob_Schor]

Why don't you attach a VI that makes the plot, and tell us what you want the axes to say.  That way, we can "play" with it and see if we can figure it out.  Or did you want us to do all of your work for you?

Bob Schor

[gnappo]

I would like the X axis name "Delta r (microm)", where Delta and micro sre the letter D and m in Symbol font. Apparently there di not a way to choose the font type in the property nodes.

[Bob_Schor]

Where is the VI?  Attach some code!  Don't make us to all the work ...

Bob Schor

[gnappo]

I just tried with the vi in the Labview examples searching "surfaces plot". It is among the installed examples.

[Bob_Schor]

Never mind -- it might not be possible (yet) ...

BS

[Bob_Schor]

Well, I'm wrong again -- it is possible, but an extremely advanced topic, not supported by NI, use-at-your-own-risk.  If you are advanced enough to be able to use non-Ascii fonts in LabVIEW, then you are advanced enough to find out "how to do it" (I don't plan to go there now -- I'll stick to inserting ± symbols onto my controls).

BS

[gnappo]

Thank you. Could you give me any suggestion on how to do that? I am not advanced user, but it's quite importat that I can succeed.
Maybe you are talking about unicode. I tried to modify the ini code and force an input stringhe to the property node of the graph, but it fails.

[Bob_Schor]

I am talking about Unicode, which is not supported by NI, but can be used "at your own risk".  There are some very funny screen shots of a LabVIEW Expert showing a Project Listing with everything in Chinese Characters (which he totally couldn't read) because LabVIEW "made a mistake" somewhere.

If you are making a "working" plot, use Delta (or Del) and mu (or u).  When you want to turn one of those plots into a "Production" plot (for a paper, say), save the plot in some nice format (I'd suggest .PNG to start), import it into a good Graphics program, and replace the text with the appropriate Greek letters.

That is how you "can succeed" without being an advanced user.  Proceed at your own risk.

BS

[gnappo]

Thank you. I could di ad you suggest. The only problem is that a graphic program should make the same 3d rotation of the text ad the 3d graph in order to paste the text. Could you suggest a program which can handle that?